Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-28

n Baker County Negro turning
White.
GEORGIA.
Carrollton has raised her quarantine
against Newman.
Oglethorpe Division, X. Of p. y. r.,
will be instituted at Brunswick about
May 90.
The week which has just closed has
seen stock in the Rome Land and I'm
provement Company rise from 81 % 10
IL 80, and no one selling even at that Dld.
Railroad officials were engaged at Ma
con Saturday IN taking certain measures
In the cotton yard on Cherry street, with
view, 1t is said, OF getting ready TO
erect a cotton compress.
Z. f. Durr, mineralogist, thinks he has
discovered unmistakaole sIgns OF petro-
leum near Rome. liz has shown in that
city specimens of rock which, when
rubbed together, send forth kerosene
odOr. He Will give The matter further In
vestigation.
At Homer the case Of the State VS.. Lee
Griffin, (colored) was terminated Friday.
The jury, after a few hours absence, re-
turned with verdict Oh "gullty or vol
untary granddaughter" Judge Hutch
ins sentenced the defendant 10 SIX years
in the penitentiary.
Not long since W. T. Nj inns bought
piece OF property in the residence portion
Of Americas, paying for II 500. A few
days ago he refused an offer I0r the same
property OF 1000. He has made no i'm
proyement on it, and IL remains to-day
fst as 1t was the day he bought II.
During the past week sixteen inter-
ments We're made in the city cemeteries
81 Augusta. OF the deaths etght were
white and eight coloTed. Under 5 years
nj W. " a
Between and 20 years old one was COL
ored. over 20 years SIX were whites and
tour colored.
Jenkins, the man who was shot by
Shelly Miller In LumDkin on Monday
last, is improving, and Will be up again,
it is thought, In few days. A commit
tai trial has been held and all the p&rtlcl-
pants in the fight bound over to the TeEu-
lar term OF stewart Superior Court under
bonds OF $400 each.
A letter from Frank Higginbotham,
who killed a fireman on lorlllard's yacht
At Brunswlck, to his family states that
he is now located about seven miles
south of Griffin, at work on a new rail-
road being built. He says be has been
made night Waterman, aud is doing very
we'll and is well treated.
freight train ran off Saturday after
boon at Fort Valley, making wreck Of
such proportions that track was built
around 1t TO allow the Columbus train to
pass. AS the South western train could
not pass the passengers were transferred
TO the Columbus train, which arrived in
Macon about an hour late. No one was
hurt in The accident.
The people OF Clayton county are arts
ing to protest against the manufacturing
of liquor under United States lieesse.
A ringing appeal from the grand Jury IS
backed by a numerously signed peSition.
A large pile OF indictments have beeu
filed, and the prospect is mat those who
have violated the State law will pay dear
ly for their venture.
Two of A. NJ. Walkers children, Twin
near Reynolds, were bitten by a mad dog
last Sunday. The dog, which was run
ming at large, was soon overtaken and
killed, but the condition OF the children
rs such as to excite serious alarm, and
the father Is earnestly endeayorng to
procure a maidstone, after having con-
suited the best medical skill.
Albany News: Post Office Inspector
Turnbull was in the city yesterday to in
vestigate the robbery of the post office on
last Monday night. SO far as the News
and Advertiser is informed no clue to the
burglars has been found. 1t WAS evil
IDENTIFY the work OF professionals who
scame here for the business and skipped as
soon as they mad secured their booty.
Harper, Simons IL Co. had on exhibit
tion at their office at Rome, Friday, per-
= haps the finest specimen OF manganese
ore ever mined in this State. 1t was taken
from an ore bed about twelve miles from
that city, in Floyd county. 1t is OF the
crystailized variety, and is pronounced
by experts to DO the finest known. This
bed has never been worked, but is
thought TO be almost ineXhaustible.
Darien Timber Gazette: The govern
ment snag-cOat ToccOa, Capt. Wester-
field, reached the city from the forks on
Monday afternoon last and went up To
Savannah on Tuesday morning. Capt.
Westerfield informed us that the river
was too high for work just now, and tn al
In the course of two or three months he
you'd return and put flats u work on the
\ tiver. He is now engaged at Work on the
|. savannah river.
NJ Marion Banks, who resides about
f4ftteen miles from TOccoa, in Eraukiin
|&county, met with serious accident Fri.
VI lay. He was returning home with
IA, 500 pounds OF guauO on his wagon
xsWhen he was about half way the
~ box upon which he was sitting turned
y over, throwing him forward under the
wheels. The heavily loaded wagon passed
over him, breaking his jaw bone and
bruising him up considerably.
The skeleton OF a Confederate soldier
was plowed up Friday on Sid Phean's
farm near kirkwood. Besides the bones,
three brass buttons, two bullets, a piece
OF cloth and a half dozen small ivory but
: sons we're found in the old grave. The
field in which the soldier was laid 10 rest
was the one upon VIII ca the hard ii ght-
ing was done on July %, 1854, aud the very
spot where the hero's grave was mad q
was one where the bullets few thickest.
James Denham, living eight or nine
miles from EatonJon, Is now offering tor
sale between 600 and 800 pairs OF shoe =
MADE before aud during the war by his
shoe factory. In those days Mr.. Denham
was one OF the largest shoe manufacture
ers in the South. He owned great num-
Der OF negroes, the ajOrty Of them WORK
ing In bis shop. Since the war he has
sold hundreds OF pairs OF shoeS, and has
the number mentioned above now on hand.
Al Athens the faculty OF the university
has not rs yet taken any action what
ever In regard to the trouble between
Cobb and Chisholm. The faculty will
hold the regular meeting tomorrow,
J. when the matter will doubtless come up.
None OF the professors says that he don't
blink anything will be done with the
e5oys. The principals in the late
threatened duel were out riding together
Friday afternoon, and are now the very
best OF friends.
The Rome Land COMPANY let the con-